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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-08-03
SOIITH CAROLINA NEWS.

- terrific cyclone passed through Lau-
rens county last Friday morning at S.3O,
blowing down a number of dwellings and
houses of all kinds, and destroying the
growing crops.
The statement widely published in
South Carolina, that Capt. Dawson, man
aging editor of the MeUs and Courier, has
recovered $4,000 damages from the New
York Sun, is contradicted by the Neacs and
Courier. The suit instituted by Capt.
Dawson against Editor Dana has not been
tried.
-Adiutant General Bonham has issued a
circular letter to the members of the Gov
ernor's staff, stating that the Governor
will be present at the Constitutional Gen.
tennial celebration, Philadelphia, Septem-
Der Is, 16 and II, and requesting those who
propose accompanying the Governor to no
tify the adjutant general as soon as practl-
cable.
- A meeting of the citizens of Greenville
was held last Friday afternoon and resolu-
tions adopted that it was the sense of the
meeting to be in favor of the subscription
by the county of $1,000 900 to the Carolina,
Knoxville and Western Railroad, the
amount to be paid when that road is com
pleted from Augusta, by Greenville, &c.
OOh1hliltSSo "StS "PPSAASSo e~N "N
necessary steps for securing the election.
- In the Sessions Court of Spartanburg,
last week, the case of the State against
G. S. Turner, indicted for the murder Of
Julius Metzki, a Pole, at Valley Falls
factory on June 26, was continued till
next term. A dispatch to the News and
Courier says: The ground of continuance
is the absence of material witnesses. b.
mar & Simpson, j.. S. Cothran and G. P.
Sanders, are defendants counsel. Turner
was accompanied from and back to Jail
by a large number OF citizens chiefly from
the Valley Falls section, where the feel
ing against Turner is said to be intense.
There is no partisan feeling expressed by
citizens of Spartanburg, the evident inten-
ton being to let the law take its course.
After the Encampment the DEFENDANTS at
torneys will move for bail. Self-defence
will be the plea of defendant on trial.
There is in the case no middle ground.
The friends of Turner claim justification of
self-defence, but the other side pronounce
the deed a cold-blooded murder.
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CHURCH NOTICES.

Methodist Episcopal-Rev. W. w. Daniel,
Pastor. Services next Sunday at 1890 A. NJ,
and $50 P. NJ. Sunday-school at 4 P. NJ.
Prayer-meeting this evening at $50.
Associate Reformed Presbyterian-Rev. J.
G. Galloway, Pastor. The pastor will be absent
next Sunday, consequently there will be no
services in his church. Sunday-school at 5
P. NJ.
Episcopal-Rev. E. N. Joyner, Rector. Ser
vices at TO- 8 A. NJ. and 6P. M. Sunday-school
at 5 P. NJ.
Presbyterian-Rev. T. R. English, Pastor.
There will be no service next Sunday. Sum
day-school at 5.30P. M.
Baptist-Rev. F. C. Hickson, Pastor. Ser
vices at Union next Sunday at II A. M, and in
Yorkville at 5 P. NJ. Sunday-school at 3.45 P.
NJ. Prayer-meeting this evening at SIS.
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Market Seports.

CHARLESTON, August 1.-Cotton quiet
middling, 10.
NEW YORK, August 1.--Cotton firm up
lands 10. Futures closed firm with sales of
90, 100 bales, as follows August, 10; Septem-
Der, GAG to 9.47 ; October, 9.3G to 9.37; Novem-
Der and December, 9.3l January, 9.34 to 9.35;
February, $40 to 9.42; March, DAG to 9.47 April,
9.53 to 9.54 May, $50 to 9.6O.
Comparative Cotton Statement.
NEW YORK, July 29.-The following is the
comparative cotton statement for the week
ending July 80, 1887: 1887. 1886.
Receipts at all ports for week. 1851 1914
Total receipts to this date. ...5 ,226,s77 5,33l,762
Exports for the week.......... 2l,843 27,5S6
Total exports to ,3i4,O2s 4,2l5,236
Stock ut all u. S. ports"....... 1s9,O5S '233,l67
Stock in interior towns. ......... 9,279 2l.OS7
Stock at Liverpool................. $4,000 500. 5000
Stock atloat for Great Britain. 5000 10000
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X SEVERE

On Friday night Mrs. j. ALT. Carroll, while
reclining on her bed, attempted to raise the
sash of the window by which the bed was
placed, and in doing so the force Of her exertion
broke some of the Stats supporting the bed,
causing her to lose her hold on the sash, and as
she went down with the bed her head came I'M
der the descending sash just in time to receive
q severe blow, rendering her unconscious for
an hour and a half. Drs. Lindsay and White
were summoned to attend her, and found her
suffering severely from confusion, though she
is now much better.
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Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer.
LETTER FROM FORT MILL.

FORT MILL. August Last week your
correspondent visited the Waxhaws and
Landsford in Lancaster county. On We'd
nesday there was a pleasant picnic at Mr..
w. H. Beckham's, near the mineral spring
between Cureton's Ferry and Waxhaw
Church. About two hundred people were
in attendance, representing a scope of
country forty miles long. Some came
from below Lancaster G. H.; some from
Monroe, North Carolina; some from
above Belair, Rock Hill and beyond and
all seemed to enjoy the occasion. Next
day a few people went to the river and
enjoyed cat fish soup, &C., the fish being
caught by hands from DR.. J.. E. Massey's
place who were having their laying-by
frolic. The crops in that section generally
looked we'll, but the chinch bug was in
juring the corn in many places. That
little pest totally destroyed some crops of
wheat and oats.
Yesterday morning a negro man was
found dead lying beside the railroad track
five miles above this place. His skull
presented a triangular fracture above the
left ear, and a bruise was found across his
stomach with some abrasion. The fracture
was on the wrong side for the train going
north (the only one on Saturday night to
have struck him. 1t might have been
made by an axe. No signs of contest were
seen. The negro wa very ragged and
seemed very poor. He may have been
stealing a ride and fallen from the train
striking the corner of a cross tie, or he
may have been murdered. He had been
working on the railroad between Rock
Hill and Yorkville, and was said to be a
resident of North Carolina. Trial justice
Culp held an inquest, and the jury's YER
dict was that deceased came to his death
at the hands of some person unknown to
the jury.
Trade is dull now, and is likely to con-
tinue so until laborers get to picking cot
ton.
The matter of trade suggests another top
ic-the scarcity of small treasury notes or
bank bills. It would be a benefit to the peo-
pie to have at least enough of them in cir
c~ulation for the transmission of small sums
by mail. It isl difficult matter to forward
subscriptions to newspapers and maya
zines, or to send for any small article OF
merchandise by mail. If the government
will not give US small notes, it would be a
relief to have postal notes issued by post
masters generally; at least in all incor-
porated towns. This is a matter of gen.
eral importance, and should receive due
attention.
Copious showers have fallen in this Sec
ton during the last two weeks, and it Is
now feared that there has been too much
wet weather for the good of the cotton
crop. ANON.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-08-03

The MARYLAND DEMOCRACY.-The
Democratic State Convention of Maryland,
to nominate candidates for Governor,
Comptroller and Attorney General, assem-
BLEED in Baltimore on Wednesday last.
Resolutions were adopted endorsing the
administration Of President Cleveland,
urging the delegates in Congress to work
for a reduction of taxation, opposing the
victs, and for an election law e%mbodying
the features of the Tilden law, and such
other provisions as will assure the purity OF
elections. Elihu Jackson was nominated
for Governor; VIM. P%inckney White for
Attorney General and L. V. B%aughman
for COMPTROLLER. The ticket as nominated,
it is declared, will heal all dissensions in
the Democratic party.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-08-03

THE PROPOSED GRADED SCHOOL.
The committee appointed at a recent meeting
of citizens of the town to formulate a plan for
establishing a graded schoolin Yorkville, is en-
gagged in the discharge of that duty, and will
b. prepared to report at 9 meeting to be called
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. GONE TO ALABAMA.

We learn that Richie Hardness, the alleged
Mormon who was waited on a few nights ago
by a band of regulators, has profted by their
admonition and departed the State, having
gone to join his step-father, W. u. Kell, in
Morgan county, Alabama.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-08-03

sion resolved without an opposing vote,
to petition the Legislature to establlsn a
new school district approximatlng nVe
miles square, with Seneca as the centre,
with the privilege of voting a tax not 70
exceed five mills, for the purpose OF estaD-
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-08-03

Last Monday was sales-day for August, and
though no official sales were to take place, the
attendance of persons from the country was az
large as usual.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-08-03

A MONUMENT TO A REVOLUTIONARY
HERo.-A monument to Col. Ben Cleve-
land, q hero of the revolution, n COM
mander at the battle of Kings Mountain
in that war, was unveiled last Thursday
at Fort Madison, a station on the Air Line
road. Fifteen hundred people were pres
ent, among whom were many representa-
tives of the Cleveland family in South Car
DINA, Georgia and Tennessee. The mon
ument is a plain shaft, sixteen feet high,
simple but beautiful in design. The un-
yelling ceremonies were opened with
prayer by the Rey. Ellison Capers. Four
little girls from Cleveland families assisted
in the unwilling. An ode, written by a
South Carolina lady, was read by General
Capers, and Lieutenant Governor Mauldin
read letters from President Cleveland, EN-
President Jefferson Davis, Governor Rich
ardson and others, regretting inability to
attend the exercises. Lieutenant Cover
nor Mauldin then introduced Mr.. r. A.
Child, of Pickens, who delivered the ora
ton of the day. Mr.. Child's address was
forcible and interesting and was delivered
With effect.
NBLIND ToM."-Judge Bond, sitting in
the U. S. District Court at Baltimore last
Saturday, decided that Thomas Virgins,
known all over the world as"Blind Tom,"
the pianist, shall be delivered on or before
August l6 into the custody of Mrs. Eliza
Bethune, who represents Charity Wig
gins, the mother of "Blind Toin," and
that Jas. w. Bethune, who has had charge
of him, shall at the same time pay to
Mrs. Bethune the sum of $1,000 for past
services. The case has been in the Courts
for several years, and has attracted con-
siderable attention from the fact that
Tom has been held as a chattel by the
Bethunes ever since his musical genius
made him valuable. The suit was brought
in the interest of his mother to regain
! possession of him.
DEATH OF THE MORMON PRESIDENT
John Taylor, the President of the Nor
mon church, died at Salt Lake City last
Wednesday. He succeeded to the head Of
the Mormon church upon the death of
Brigham Young, but there has been moth
ing in his career to give him the fame of
his predecessor. Taylor was buried on
Friday. Numbers viewed the corpse as it
lay in the tabernacle open to the public
| sight. A son of Taylor's tried to tell the
audience how his father had been deceiv-
ed in the Constitutional Convention, that
he did not know of the adoption of the
anti-polygamy doctrine, but the manage
ment of the programme declined to be
interrupted and the young mar was forced
to quit.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-08-03

I'll COLORED ODD FELLOWS.
The colored Odd Fellows of this place ap-
pointed yesterday, to-day and tomorrow as
days for a grand festival and celebration but
owing to the rain yesterday they made but a
small demonstration. Their parade will take
place tomorrow. There are present a num-
Der of their visiting brethren FROM different
parts of the State.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-08-03

SENECA Cry WORKING FOR GRADED
SCHooLs.-A large number of the citizens
of the fourishing town of Seneca, in this
State, have recently held a meeting to
consider the all-important question OF
schools. Every one present seemed to be
greatly interested, and after a free discus
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-08-03

the southern base of Kings Mountain, through
the finest timber and mineral lands in the.
South, thence near the famous battle ground
and on towards Hickory Grovein York county,
intersecting the c., c. & c., and thenceto Lock
harris Shoals on Broad river.
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OBITUARY

DIED.-In Yorkville, on the 18th ultimo,
from the effects of whooping cough and teeth
ing, ANNA ROWAN, infant daughter of Mr..
Walter 7. and Mrs. Mary L. Barron, aged 8
months and Is days.
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and then the two lines will be submitted

and then the two lines will be submitted
to the President. 1t is generally believed
that the northern line will be selected.
Mr.. J. H. Mcclure, who graduated at the
South Carolina College in June last, has
accepted the position of assistant civil
engineer on the G. G. g. n. Railroad, and
is now in active work.
. The fifth Sunday meeting of the Baptist
churches of this county met at one of Rev.
Mr.. Mahon's churches in the Halsellville
neighborhood. NJ.
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UNTIL JANUARY 1st, 1888.
SAIES.DAY.

ONIIH o IStt %
The ENQUIRER will be furnished from this
date until January LIST, 1888, for $1.OO.
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MOCAL BRIEFS.

A horse belonging to r. A. Parish's livery
stable died last Sunday from the effects of hard
driving.
BY u typographical error in the advertise
ment of McConnellsville High School, the
date of the beginning of the next session was
printed last week August 9th, when it should
have been Monday the 22nd.
Mr.. Alonzo Rose showed us a curiosity the
other day in the shape of a hens egg. 1t was
unusually large, and when broken was found
to contain two yolks surrounding a perfectly
formed egg of nearly the usual size.
Crockery by the carload is an unusual ship
ment for this market, but last week Messrs.
Lindsay e. Moore received a consignment
from first hands, the shipment filling a freight
car and when unpacked numbering 8 $500 pieces.
The picnic at Carrolls Grove in Bullock's
Creek township, last Friday, was largely at
tended, but owing to the constant rain, the
usual picnic festivities were dispensed with and
the people returned to their homes early in the
day.
1t is reported that a negro named John Nc
Gill, working on the Charleston, Cincinnati
and Chicago Railroad, near Blacks, was shot
twice in the abdomen by the colored man with
whom he boarded, and died from the effects of
the wounds last Friday.
Henry Wilson, the negro laborer on Mr.. Ross
contract, who received a pistol wound in the
head three weeks ago, has so far recovered as
to admit of his removal to the poor house,
where he now is, and in a fair way to recover.
The interesting feature of this case is that the
ball seemed to penetrate the brain and brain
matter exuded from the wound.
RauROAD NOTES.
Owing to the continued rains for the past
week, work in this vicinity on the railroad is
practically suspended. Even should the wealth
er now clear up the work of grading could not
be resumed before next Monday, so thoroughly
is the ground saturated with water.
Capt. Lewis is working on the bridges that
will cross the Chester and Pinckney roads near
town. The Pinckney road bridge is now near
ly finished. That on the Chester road will
cross the track of the c., G. q c. Railroad,
and for ample accommodation OF the public
will be sixteen feet in width. The bridge across
the Pinckney road is for the track of the rail-
road. Those travelling on the highway will
pass under the bridge.
The Columbia Register of yesterday has the
following: "Col. r. A. Johnson, General Man
ager of the Massachusetts and Southern Con-
struction Company Senator NJ. c. Butler; w.
G.. Mcintyre, Esq, of Springfield, Mass. Col.
J. D. Banding, of Sumter :; Col. P. H. Nelson,
of Camden, and others connected with the road,
are in the city for the purpose of comforting on
the interest of the enterprise in this State.
They will meet to-day"
The Gastonia, N. G., correspondent of the
Charlotte Chronicle says: Another road is pro-
posed to run from Gastonia via All-Heallng
Springs around the Southern base of Crowder's
mountain, thence via the old renowned, original
"All-Healing Springs" owned by Sparrow, at
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Straps aud fatt5.

Senator Thurman has made a short
and strong speech in favor of popular ap..
prevail of the Democratic platform and
candidates in Ohio, in saying that Presi-
dent Cleveland is sure to be renomlnated
because che is q man of undOubted honesty
and undoubted courage. The American
people like a brave man and an honest
a Everybody must admit that Mr..
Cleveland is BOTH"
"A disastrous tornado passed over the
town of David City, Nebraska, last Fri
day evening. One man was killed and
over half the buildings in town demolish-
ed, including the Union Pacific and the
Burlington and Missouri depots. A large
brick school house, the Methodist and
Congregational churches and several stores
and many dwelling houses were wrecked.
The damage is estimated at 100000.
"A Sioux City, Iowa, dispatch of Satur-
day says: 1.-THE Missouri River continues
to cut the bank in front Of this city, sever
al hundred feet of valuable property hav-
ty.four hours. The Illinois Central; Sioux
City and Pacific and Milwaukee Railroads
havejoined in an effort to stop the cutting,
and are working three hundred men. En-
gineers say they can control it in time"
The State Auditor of North Carolina
reports that LOT soldiers and 1,02O wild
ows are now drawing pensions from the
State Treasury, besides the 1924 widows
whose husbands died from disease during
the civil war, and the new applicants to
be added to the pension list. Thus the
annual $4,000 appropriation will submit
to long division among over four thousand
persons, or about seven dollars to each
pensioner.
The order issued by General Bently
barring out colored troops from the inter-
national military encampment to be held
in Chicago in October, has been recalled
by request of the board of managers in
charge of the enterprise. Notice has been
issued by General Bently that colored
companies, regularly mustered into the
national guard, will now be permitted to
attend. No colored troops have ever init
mated in any way that they desired to be
presentat the encampment.
- The interstate commission has decid-
ed that it is unlawful for a railroad compa-
ny to discriminate in rates in favor Of
large dealers. In the case in question the
company gave a rebate of 10 cents a ton
las much as the net profit at wholesale) to
q merchant who should ship or receive
more than 10000 tons in one year. The
commission also decides that railroad COM
panies may sell mileage tickets to drum
mers as cheap as they please, but that all
otbor p~oeeanoere mnst have the privilege
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-11-05
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5aUlI1l agile
MYSTERIOUS P0IS0NS.
THE DEADLY RESULTS OF DECOM-
POSITION m ANIMAL TISSUES.

The Interesting Series OF Poisons Known
as Ptomaines--What They arc, How
They ENTHUSIASTICALLY That They
Frequently Cause Death.
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: CoInpiexionist.

One OF tie newest occupations upon
which women can enter is that Of the
.complexionist." Such q person makes Z
study Of the skin, and for 4 stipend en-
beavers 70 improve customers complex
Ions. Here is prescription that one Ct
them gave q client, promising that it would
clear the skin IL a short time: 4 tablespoon
ful of sulphur taken every morning for 4
week, then emitted for tllreo mornings,
and taken again. ArltXture OF powdered
birthstone or diluted Elycerlne should be
rubbed CT the face ct night and washed
O. in the morning with soap and water
IN which there is a little apaNonia.-Chi-
co riil.s
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20 Prevent seasicSmcSs.

We have already mentioned Z number
Of remedies for seasicllnoss. Dr.. SGtEer-
land suggests another, which ne employed
successfully n crossing The English chan
nel, lie escaping when almost every one
WIS sick. lie takes tight hold Of Tn:
pillars supporting the deck. and. rs the
boat rises in going over n wave he runs
uphill, rs il were, reversing the direction
OF his run when the boat descends the
waye.--Scicace.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-02-09
A Grand Benevolence-The Work of
One Year.

The great fraternal beneficiary society,
known as the Knights of Honor, which
has so rapidly extended itself all over the
United States, did grand work in 1886.
1t is strictly fraternity, organized on the
lodge plan, holding meetings at least twice
a month. 1t has for its purpose the ad
vancement and benefit of its own members,
and the betterment of humanity in gener-
al.
During the year 1886, there was distribu-
ted in local charities through the medium
of the 5000 subordinate lodges scattered
throughout the country, $4,000. This
fund was distributed without any cost OF dis
bursement, and went at once and most OPP
portunely TO the needy. While this sum is a
handsome one in the aggregate, yet it was
distributed without being felt by any mem
Der, and was less than 100 Tor each mem-
Der OF the order. The readiness with which
the call is responded to by the membership
is most commendable. When Charleston
was visited by the terrible earthquakes OF
last summer, liberal contributions were
sent forward by the various lodges through
out the country, and only ceased to 60 for-
ward when no more were needed.
Aside from these noble charities, this
great benevolent order teaches its members
10 PROVIDE tpf tnUSS aEkcH0NHt - pm tASAAs
when the members shall be called away
from earth. 1t provides that benefit of
g.. 600 shall be paid to the family of every
member who dies in good standing in the
order. This fund Is raised by assessments
upon each individual member. During
| 1886. twenty-one assessments were called
TO the Supreme Lodge Treasury, and there
was paid out from the sum thus realized,
| i'm death benefits to the families and de-
pendents Of deceased members, during the
wear. S. 900. These payments went in
| the main to those who otherwise would
have left nothing for the support OF theil
families. They were enabled to do this
| for the reason that the assessments are paid
| in sums of one and two dollars per month
for each member, through the agency O
his subordinate Lodge.
When we add to this benefit fund of S.,
123. 600, the $40, 900 disbursed as loca
charities. we have the grand total of 50.
l243 900 disbursed by the Knights OF Homo
i during 1856. What noble work was this
and how many widows and orphans hav
been kept from want, and comforted in tn
/ hour of distress and need, by the quie
but effective labors Of this great brother
hood
The Lodge III Jackson, Central, Nc
l764-has about 125 members, and thu
lcarries quarter of million dollars In
lsurance. The beneiciaries of its decease'
J members have received nearly forty thons
and dollars to date